Re: [asterisk-biz] Dear Termination Providers,

On Apr 24, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:

> For the love of god and all that is holy, why do you not include
> your US
> rates in your ratesheets? I don't care that each customer gets a
> different
> rate, if you can terminate calls worth your salt, you can hire
> someone to
> write a script that includes the rate for the customer in your rate
> sheets.
> It's fine if one has to get the rate sheet via a URL like this:
>
> http://www.example.com/dynamic_rates.php?username=xxx&password=xxx&format=csv
>
> (Bonus -- If I'm logged into your site, username/password isn't
> required!)
>
> I don't mind! I don't even mind if I have to sign up for free to
> GET your
> A-Z rates! I _DO_ mind having to update US rates by hand while I can
> automate the updating of rates using your published rate sheet!
>
> The United States is a country too -- stop thinking about all the
> other
> countries separately from your A-Z rate sheet and leaving out the US
> because it is, for you, not International. You can't know what your
> customer thinks is International!
>
> So do me a favor -- figure out how to publish your rates on a per-
> customer
> basis, so we can automatically update rates from your site, and so
> that we
> can maybe even automatically send you more traffic when you put a
> destination on sale!
>
> Beckman
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Beckman
> Internet Guy
> beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Peter -
You're doing your domain name proud! ;-)

It is almost always contradictory to provider's best interests to
make their rate sheets easy to import or understand. Here's a
document set that I wrote a while back in the hopes that I could beat
providers up into giving me the correct rate table data in a format I
could use:

http://www.loligo.com/asterisk/misc/rates/

JT

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John Todd email:jtodd@digium.com
Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director
445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA
direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/

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